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twigHow to use Markdown with Twig and PHP?


Markdown is a lightweight markup language that can be used to format text. It can be used with Twig and PHP to create dynamic webpages.

Example code

<?php
$twig = new Twig_Environment();
$template = $twig->loadTemplate('template.html');
echo $template->render(array('content' => Markdown::parse($content)));
?>

Output example

<html>
  <head>
    <title>My Page</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>My Page</h1>
    <p>This is my page.</p>
  </body>
</html>

Code explanation

  • $twig = new Twig_Environment();: This creates a new Twig environment.
  • $template = $twig->loadTemplate('template.html');: This loads the template file.
  • echo $template->render(array('content' => Markdown::parse($content)));: This renders the template with the parsed Markdown content.

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